The short answer
In Buckingham Township and Furlong, American Stone LS repoints fieldstone houses and barns with lime-rich mortar, restores and rebuilds stone walls and pillars, restores flagstone patios and walkways, and seals stone with breathable penetrating sealers. Luciano and Alex Sansalone are local fourth-generation stonemasons and give free on-site estimates.
Some of the oldest buildings in this part of the county are in Buckingham. The Buckingham Friends Meeting House, built of stone in 1768, still stands in Lahaska. All around it are farms with fieldstone houses and bank barns, and miles of old walls. It is our neighborhood, and we know its stone well.
What we see in Buckingham
- Field walls and retaining walls that have lost their caps or started to bulge after years of wet winters.
- Farmhouse walls due for repointing on the side that takes the weather.
- Bank barns with open joints, loose corners and water running against the foundation.
- Entrance pillars with loose caps and failing joints.
- Bluestone terraces that need repointing, resetting and sealing.
What we do here
Most Buckingham jobs are about keeping good old stone in service: repointing, stone wall and pillar restoration, patio and walkway restoration and sealing. When a wall section has failed, we take it down and relay it with its own stone, on a proper footing and with drainage behind it, so it matches the rest of the property.
A client's words
Peter Wallach of Buckingham called us "easily the top mason contractor in Bucks County." We work hard to keep earning that, one property at a time.
Questions we hear on site
Can you repair an old dry-laid field wall?
Do you restore bank barns?
How often should I have my stone checked?
Other places we work
Who does the work
Luciano Sansalone learned stonework at fifteen beside his father and grandfather in Italy and has worked on Bucks County stone for over forty years. His son Alex is the fourth generation. The two of them inspect every property and do the work themselves. Read our story.
